The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-23
Temperance Conventions.

HE w dSHlUHlO0 county temperance COu-
vention assembled in the courthouse at
Montpelier last Saturday, in accordance
with the call issued by the county com
mittee. The meeting was called to order at
half-past ten A. NJ. by Joseph Fisher of
Montpelier chairman Of the county com
mittee, who read the call for the conven-
ton. Mr.. Fisher was elected president of
the convention and an adjournment was
taken at one o'clock p NJ. At one o'clock
the convention reassembled and w. f.
Barney of Montpelier was chosen secretary.
Hon. Joseph Poland of Montpelier and AL
bert Dwinell of Calais were appointed a
committee on resolutions. General Stephen
Thomas was unanimously nominated for
county commissioner to be voted for at the
coming March meetings. The following
county committee was then elected Joseph
Fisher, Montpelier; G. ID. Edgerton, North
field; o. B. Boyce, Esq, Barre; A. Martin
Calais; George w. Morse Waterbury. The
following town committees were elected:
Barre, DIR. O. II. Reed and DR.. II. o.
Worthen; Berlin, f. K. Andrews and a. l..
Hewitt; Cabot, b. p. Elmer and Henry
Hills; Calais, Elbridge Stickney and Levi G..
\. Gray; East Montpelier, George Sanders
and Charles Holister; Fayston, Timothy
Chase and Rev. j. S. Buzzell; Marshfeld,
c. c. Bent and f. b. Dwinell; Middlesex,
j. II. Holden and William Chaplin; Mont
pelier, Charles H. Heath, Esq, and J. ID.
ozark; MOTtIOWI, d. L. l. dSStIU anu II. II.
Donahue; Northtield Frank Plumley, ESQ.,,
and O. ID. Edgerton Plainield, o. l.. Hoyt,
ESQ, and A. G.. Fay, Esq; RoXbury, Hon.
u. S. Stanton and DIR. j. III. Fisk Warren,
DIR. +. w. Slayton and f. A. Eldredge
Waitsfield, z. S. McAllister and William
Palmer Waterbury, &. ID. Robinson and E.
l.. Perry; Woodbury., Frank Angel and u.
b. Wheeler: Worcester, |. E. Wheeler and
Marshall Bailey. The committee on resolu-
tions reported the following, which were
adopted; " Resolved, That we, as citizens of
Washington county and solicitous for its
good name, rejoice in the late successful
efforts to enforce the prohibitory law in
Montpelier, and in the conclusive evidence
there furnished that our sheriff department
can be relied upon to do its whole duty, and
that prohibition, when fairly and honestly
tested, does prOhibu. ReSOlUed, That every
days development tends more and more tc
| convince us that the liquor traffic is the
next great national question to be grappled
with, and we call upon every man, woman
and child, who love their country and their
race, to bury all minor differences and
join shoulder to shoulder to free our land
| from this unmitigated curse. ReSOlred
| That we most heartily endorse the nominee
! of this convention for county commissioner
and we call upon the friends of the law al
over the county to see that he has theil
support at the polls" After the adoption
of the resolutions the convention adjourned
without date. w. f. BARNEY, Secretary.
The Orange County Temperance Socet,
met in convention at the Orange Count,
Hotel in Chelsea on Wednesday, the 16tl
instant at twelve o'clock noon, and in thu
absence of the secretary was called to orde
by the president, j. X Darling E. NJ. Col
Inns was appointed secretary pro tenn Off
GERS were elected for the year ensuing a
follows: President, j. X. Darling of Chel
sea; first vice-president, K. III. Allen o